North Vancouver (federal electoral district)

Not to be confused with Vancouver North or North Vancouver (provincial electoral district).
North Vancouver
British Columbia electoral district
Location in the Lower Mainland
Federal electoral district
LegislatureHouse of Commons
MP
 
 		 
Jonathan Wilkinson
Liberal
District created1987
First contested1988
Last contested2021
District webpageprofile, map
Demographics
Population (2011)[1]109,639
Electors (2015)82,085
Area (km²)[1]342
Pop. density (per km²)320.6
Census division(s)Greater Vancouver
Census subdivision(s)North Vancouver (city), North Vancouver (DM), Greater Vancouver A

North Vancouver is a federal electoral district in the province of British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1988.

Under the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution the riding will be renamed North Vancouver—Capilano.[2]

Demographics

Panethnic groups in North Vancouver (2011−2021)
Panethnic
group 		2021[3] 2016[4] 2011[5]
Pop. % Pop. % Pop. %
European[a] 78,535 64.42% 78,165 68.64% 78,055 71.92%
Middle Eastern[b] 13,460 11.04% 9,545 8.38% 7,885 7.27%
East Asian[c] 11,820 9.69% 10,845 9.52% 9,515 8.77%
Southeast Asian[d] 6,035 4.95% 5,130 4.51% 5,125 4.72%
South Asian 4,220 3.46% 4,105 3.6% 3,035 2.8%
Indigenous 2,685 2.2% 2,580 2.27% 2,335 2.15%
Latin American 2,160 1.77% 1,410 1.24% 1,120 1.03%
African 800 0.66% 840 0.74% 525 0.48%
Other[e] 2,210 1.81% 1,255 1.1% 930 0.86%
Total responses 121,920 99.1% 113,870 98.72% 108,525 98.98%
Total population 123,025 100% 115,344 100% 109,639 100%
Notes: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses.
Demographics based on 2012 Canadian federal electoral redistribution riding boundaries.
According to the 2016 Canadian census; 2013 representation[6][7][8]

Languages: 69.8% English, 7.7% Persian, 2.2% Tagalog, 2.1% Mandarin, 1.9% Korean, 1.8% French, 1.6% Spanish, 1.6% German, 1.5% Cantonese
Religions (2011): 47.2% Christian (18.2% Catholic, 7.0% Anglican, 6.6% United Church, 1.6% Lutheran, 1.5% Presbyterian, 1.4% Christian Orthodox, 1.3% Baptist 9.6% Other), 6.3% Muslim, 42.5% No religion
Median income (2010): $39,040
Average income (2010): $58,194

Geography

This district includes the entirety of the City of North Vancouver and the majority of the District of North Vancouver.

History

This riding was created in 1987 from portions of North Vancouver—Burnaby and Capilano electoral districts.

The 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution concluded that the electoral boundaries of North Vancouver should be adjusted, and a modified electoral district of the same name will be contested in future elections.[9] The redefined North Vancouver loses the eastern portion of its current territory to the new district of Burnaby North—Seymour, while its western boundary with West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country is adjusted to correspond to the boundaries between the District of North Vancouver, West Vancouver and the Capilano Indian Reserve. These new boundaries were legally defined in the 2013 representation order, which came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, scheduled for October 2015.[10]

Members of Parliament

This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Parliament Years Member Party
North Vancouver
Riding created from North Vancouver—Burnaby and Capilano
34th  1988–1993     Chuck Cook Progressive Conservative
35th  1993–1997     Ted White Reform
36th  1997–2000
 2000–2000     Alliance
37th  2000–2003
 2003–2004     Conservative
38th  2004–2006     Don Bell Liberal
39th  2006–2008
40th  2008–2011     Andrew Saxton Conservative
41st  2011–2015
42nd  2015–2019     Jonathan Wilkinson Liberal
43rd  2019–2021
44th  2021–present

North Vancouver, as well as surrounding North Shore ridings, typically elect right-leaning candidates in federal elections. For nearly 25 consecutive years between 1979 and 2004, North Vancouver and its predecessor, North Vancouver-Burnaby, were held by a member of the major "small-c" conservative party of the day. The stream was however interrupted in the 2004 general election, when outgoing North Vancouver (city) mayor Don Bell was able to swing the riding over to the Liberals, just narrowly defeating long-time incumbent Conservative MP Ted White. Bell was re-elected in the 2006 election (by less than 4% of the vote), though in neither of his two terms did the sitting parliament even make it to the halfway point of its five-year mandate before an election was held. In the 2008 election, North Vancouver businessman Andrew Saxton returned the riding to the Conservatives, winning a plurality of the vote (by less than 5% of the vote) and defeating the incumbent Don Bell.

Saxton served as parliamentary secretary to multiple cabinet ministers in the Conservative majority government, including Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance (Jim Flaherty). In the 2015 general election, amidst a climate of growing dissatisfaction with the government and Prime Minister Stephen Harper, as well as the emergence of populous strategic voting, Liberal candidate Jonathan Wilkinson defeated Saxton by almost a 2-to-1 margin, and serves as parliamentary secretary to the minister of environment and climate change in the Liberal majority government in Canada's 43rd parliament.

Election results

Graph of election results in North Vancouver (minor parties that never got 2% of the vote or didn't run consistently are omitted)

North Vancouver—Capilano

Next Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Liberal Jonathan Wilkinson
Conservative Stephen Curran
New Democratic Tammy Bentz
Total valid votes/Expense limit
Total rejected ballots
Turnout
Eligible voters
2021 federal election redistributed results[11]
Party Vote %
  Liberal 24,447 44.69
  Conservative 16,071 29.38
  New Democratic 10,422 19.05
  Green 2,335 4.27
  People's 1,408 2.57
  Others 18 0.03

North Vancouver

2021 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Liberal Jonathan Wilkinson 26,756 45.1 +2.2 $95,112.00
Conservative Les Jickling 16,671 28.1 +1.2 $113,640.04
New Democratic Tammy Bentz 11,750 19.8 +3.4 $20,351.82
Green Archie Kaario 2,598 4.4 -8.1 $11,600.97
People's John Galloway 1,545 2.6 +1.3 $0.00
Total valid votes/Expense limit 59,320 99.4 – $118,692.36
Total rejected ballots 383 0.6
Turnout 59,703 66.1
Eligible voters 90,326
Liberal hold Swing +0.5
Source: Elections Canada[12]
2019 Canadian federal election: North Vancouver
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Liberal Jonathan Wilkinson 26,979 42.87 -13.78 $98,189.08
Conservative Andrew Saxton 16,908 26.87 -0.02 none listed
New Democratic Justine Bell 10,340 16.43 +8.64 $40,432.73
Green George Orr 7,868 12.50 +4.19 $39,810.86
People's Azmairnin Jadavji 835 1.33 – none listed
Total valid votes/expense limit 62,930 99.45
Total rejected ballots 349 0.55 +0.21
Turnout 63,279 71.20 -4.57
Eligible voters 88,874
Liberal hold Swing -6.88
Source: Elections Canada[13][14]
2015 Canadian federal election: North Vancouver
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Liberal Jonathan Wilkinson 36,458 56.65 +26.94 $149,970.51
Conservative Andrew Saxton 17,301 26.88 -20.67 $149,776.24
Green Claire Martin 5,350 8.31 +3.08 $135,108.48
New Democratic Carleen Thomas 5,015 7.79 -9.06 $21,413.99
Libertarian Ismet Yetisen 136 0.21 – $1,942.47
Independent Payam Azad 94 0.15 – $22.40
Total valid votes/expense limit 64,354 99.66   $220,823.27
Total rejected ballots 218 0.34 –
Turnout 64,572 75.77 –
Eligible voters 85,219
Liberal gain from Conservative Swing +23.80
Source: Elections Canada[15][16][17]
2011 federal election redistributed results[18]
Party Vote %
  Conservative 23,923 47.56
  Liberal 14,948 29.71
  New Democratic 8,480 16.86
  Green 2,632 5.23
  Others 322 0.64
2011 Canadian federal election: North Vancouver
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Andrew Saxton 28,996 48.62 +6.42
Liberal Taleeb Noormohamed 17,665 29.62 -7.69
New Democratic Michael Charrois 9,617 16.13 +6.71
Green Greg Dowman 3,004 5.04 -5.75
Independent Nick Jones 350 0.59 –
Total valid votes 59,632 100.0  
Total rejected ballots 153 0.26 -0.02
Turnout 59,785 67.77
Eligible voters 88,216
Conservative hold Swing +7.06
2008 Canadian federal election: North Vancouver
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Conservative Andrew Saxton 24,371 42.20 +5.43 $88,610
Liberal Don Bell 21,551 37.31 -5.03 $88,697
Green Jim Stephenson 6,168 10.79 +3.31 $17,464
New Democratic Michael Charrois 5,417 9.42 -3.77 $6,664
Libertarian Tunya Audain 166 0.29 –
Total valid votes/expense limit 57,673 100.0     $89,266
Total rejected ballots 162 0.28 +0.05
Turnout 57,835
Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +5.23
2006 Canadian federal election: North Vancouver
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Liberal Don Bell 25,357 42.34 +2.32 $78,858
Conservative Cindy Silver 22,021 36.77 +0.41 $82,866
New Democratic Sherry Shaghaghi 7,903 13.19 -2.67 $13,797
Green Jim Stephenson 4,483 7.48 +0.20 $15,613
Marxist–Leninist Michael Hill 112 0.18 +0.05
Total valid votes 59,876 100.0  
Total rejected ballots 140 0.23 -0.05
Turnout 60,016 69.89 +1.73
Liberal hold Swing +0.96
2004 Canadian federal election: North Vancouver
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Liberal Don Bell 22,619 40.02 +7.26 $72,712
Conservative Ted White 20,548 36.36 -20.61 $60,651
New Democratic John Nelson 8,967 15.86 +10.93 $21,278
Green Peggy Stortz 4,114 7.28 – $3,241
Canadian Action Andres Esteban Barker 181 0.32 -1.24 $400
Marxist–Leninist Michael Hill 77 0.13 -0.01
Total valid votes 56,506 100.0  
Total rejected ballots 158 0.28 -0.01
Turnout 56,664 68.16 -0.64
Liberal gain from Alliance Swing +13.94
Conservative vote is compared to the total of the Canadian Alliance vote and Progressive Conservative vote in 2000 election.
2000 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Alliance Ted White 27,920 49.87 +1.01 $60,178
Liberal Bill Bell 18,343 32.76 -1.18 $50,482
Progressive Conservative Laurence Putnam 3,975 7.10 +2.16 $1,278
New Democratic Sam Schechter 2,760 4.93 -4.22 $2,769
Marijuana Tunya Audain 1,008 1.80 – $23
Canadian Action Diana Jewell 877 1.56 +1.20 $547
Independent Dallas Collis 760 1.35 +0.70 $1,134
Independent Rusty Corben 253 0.45 –
Marxist–Leninist Michael Hill 80 0.14 – $33
Total valid votes 55,976 100.0  
Total rejected ballots 164 0.29 -0.01
Turnout 56,140 68.80 -3.03
Alliance hold Swing +1.10
Canadian Alliance vote is compared to the Reform vote in 1997 election.
1997 Canadian federal election
Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures
Reform Ted White 27,075 48.86 +8.85 $63,443
Liberal Warren Kinsella 18,806 33.94 +2.87 $62,704
New Democratic Martin Stuible 5,075 9.15 +2.77 $11,938
Progressive Conservative Dennis Prouse 2,740 4.94 -11.00 $14,159
Green Peggy Stortz 982 1.77 – $173
Independent Dallas Lindley Collins 365 0.65 –
Canadian Action Wayne Mulherin 203 0.36 – $1,359
Natural Law Ken Chawkin 162 0.29 -0.59
Total valid votes 55,408 100.0  
Total rejected ballots 167 0.30
Turnout 55,575 71.83
Reform hold Swing +2.99
1993 Canadian federal election: North Vancouver
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Reform Ted White 20,407 40.01 +31.09
Liberal Mobina Jaffer 15,951 31.27 +4.06
Progressive Conservative Will McMartin 7,900 15.49 -22.16
New Democratic Graeme Bowbrick 3,254 6.38 -17.48
National Dallas Collis 2,234 4.38 –
Green Arne B. Hansen 534 1.05 +0.11
Natural Law Bradford Cooke 447 0.88 –
Independent Clarke L. Ashley 144 0.28 –
Libertarian Anthony Jasich 116 0.23 –
Commonwealth of Canada Paul Fraleigh 22 0.04 –
Total valid votes 51,009 100.0  
Reform gain from Progressive Conservative Swing +13.52
1988 Canadian federal election: North Vancouver
Party Candidate Votes %
Progressive Conservative Chuck Cook 18,515 37.64
Liberal James Hatton 13,382 27.21
New Democratic Donna Stewart 11,735 23.86
Reform Ron Gamble 4,387 8.92
Green Glen Ash 462 0.94
Rhinoceros Richard "The Troll" Schaller 323 0.66
Libertarian Tunya Audain 225 0.46
Communist Betty Griffin 78 0.16
Independent Brian Smith 49 0.10
Independent Barrie A. Hewer 30 0.06
Total valid votes 49,186 100.0  
This riding was created from parts of North Vancouver—Burnaby and Capilano, both of which elected a Progressive Conservative in the previous election. Chuck Cook was the incumbent from North Vancouver—Burnaby.

See also

References

  • "North Vancouver (federal electoral district) (Code 59019) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada. Retrieved March 6, 2011.
  • Library of Parliament Riding Profile
  • Campaign expense data from Elections Canada - 2008
  • Expenditures - 2004
  • Expenditures - 2000
  • Expenditures - 1997

Notes

  1. ^ Statistic includes all persons that did not make up part of a visible minority or an indigenous identity.
  2. ^ Statistic includes total responses of "West Asian" and "Arab" under visible minority section on census.
  3. ^ Statistic includes total responses of "Chinese", "Korean", and "Japanese" under visible minority section on census.
  4. ^ Statistic includes total responses of "Filipino" and "Southeast Asian" under visible minority section on census.
  5. ^ Statistic includes total responses of "Visible minority, n.i.e." and "Multiple visible minorities" under visible minority section on census.
  1. ^ a b Statistics Canada: 2012
  2. ^ "North Vancouver—Capilano–Final boundaries". FEDERAL ELECTORAL DISTRICTS REDISTRIBUTION 2022.
  3. ^ Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (October 26, 2022). "Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved February 15, 2023.
  4. ^ Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (October 27, 2021). "Census Profile, 2016 Census". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved February 15, 2023.
  5. ^ Government of Canada, Statistics Canada (November 27, 2015). "NHS Profile". www12.statcan.gc.ca. Retrieved February 15, 2023.
  6. ^ "Census Profile, 2016 Census, Statistics Canada - Validation Error".
  7. ^ "Statistics Canada: 2011 National Household Survey Profile". May 8, 2013.
  8. ^ "Statistics Canada: 2011 National Household Survey Profile". May 8, 2013.
  9. ^ Final Report – British Columbia
  10. ^ Timeline for the Redistribution of Federal Electoral Districts
  11. ^ "Transposition of Votes from the 44th General Election to the 2023 Representation Orders". Elections Canada. Retrieved April 9, 2024.
  12. ^ "List of confirmed candidates – September 20, 2021 Federal Election". Elections Canada. Retrieved September 2, 2021.
  13. ^ "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
  14. ^ "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved August 13, 2021.
  15. ^ Elections Canada – Confirmed candidates for North Vancouver, 30 September 2015
  16. ^ Elections Canada – Preliminary Election Expenses Limits for Candidates
  17. ^ [1]
  18. ^ Pundits' Guide to Canadian Elections